ABSTRACT
Is Foucauldian feminism a contradiction in terms? I would not have thought so. After all, Foucault and feminists both focus upon sexuality as a key arena of political struggle. Both expand the domain of the “political” to include forms of social domination associated with the personal sphere. And both launch critiques against forms of biological determinism, and humanism. Finally, both are skeptical of the human sciences insofar as the latter have been implicated in modern forms of domination. Indeed, rather than link the growth of knowledge with progress, both describe how the growth of specific forms of knowledge—for instance in medicine, psychiatry, sociology, psychology—has been linked to the emergence of subtle mechanisms of social control, and to the elision of other forms of knowledge and experience. 1
